Senior Project Scheduler / Project Planning Engineer

Contract typeFull Time

Entry levelHigh Professionals

LocationMumbai

thyssenkrupp nucera offers world-leading technologies for high-efficiency electrolysis plants. The company has extensive in-depth knowledge in the engineering, procurement, and construction of electrochemical plants and a strong track record of more than 600 projects with a total rating of over 10 gigawatts already successfully installed. With its water electrolysis technology to produce green hydrogen, the company offers an innovative solution on an industrial scale for green value chains and an industry fueled by clean energy – a major step towards a climate-neutrality.

Your responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Scheduler / Project Planning Engineer to support the planning, monitoring, and control of a complex EPC / industrial project. The role is responsible for developing and maintaining integrated project schedules, coordinating interfaces across disciplines and partners, and providing reliable schedule analysis to support project decision-making.

The position requires strong planning expertise, confident stakeholder coordination, and excellent English communication skills for working with international project teams, clients, consortium partners, contractors, and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and control integrated project schedules covering engineering, procurement, fabrication, manufacturing, logistics, erection, commissioning, and related project activities.
Review contractual and execution requirements, including milestones, assumptions, constraints, interfaces, planning obligations, approved baselines, and re-baselining processes.
Coordinate with internal teams, consortium partners, vendors, subcontractors, and client representatives to collect progress data and maintain accurate schedule updates.
Perform critical path, float, risk, delay impact, forecast, and what-if analyses to identify schedule deviations and support project decisions.
Propose mitigation, acceleration, or recovery measures in coordination with project management.
Prepare schedule and progress reporting, including schedule updates, milestone tracking, look-ahead schedules, variance analyses, S-curves, dashboards, forecasts, and management summaries.
Support project controls, risk management, cost control, performance monitoring, change management, and contractual schedule reporting by providing reliable schedule input and impact assessments.

Your profile

Required Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
Over ten years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and project controls, preferably in EPC, industrial, energy, hydrogen, oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation, or other capital-intensive projects.
Hands-on experience with Primavera P6 is obligatory, additionally Microsoft Project would be beneficial.
Strong understanding of project scheduling and project controls, including critical path methodology, baseline and schedule control, progress measurement, earned value management, schedule risk analysis, and recovery planning.
Experience in forecasting, performance reporting, change management, contractual schedule reporting, and assessing schedule impacts, including Extension of Time (EoT) requirements arising from contractual or project-related changes.
Proven experience coordinating schedules in consortium, joint venture, or multi-contractor EPC environments with complex interfaces between partners, contractors, suppliers, and client representatives.
Experience preparing management reports, S-curves, milestone reports, look-ahead schedules, dashboards, forecasts, and executive progress summaries.

Language and Communication Requirements

Excellent written and spoken English is mandatory.
Ability to prepare clear schedule reports, planning inputs, presentations, and management summaries in English.
Ability to communicate confidently with international project teams, clients, consortium partners, contractors, and suppliers.
Strong facilitation skills for planning meetings, schedule reviews, and guide peers and progress discussions across organizational and cultural interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in hydrogen, electrolysis, renewable energy, process plants, industrial manufacturing, or modular package delivery projects.
Additional exposure to large-scale international EPC projects with complex partner and subcontractor interfaces would be advantageous.
Hands-on involvement in delay analysis, claims support, or forensic schedule review would be an advantage.
PMP®, PMI-SP®, or similar project management / scheduling certification would be an advantage.
Familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP or Microsoft Dynamics would be beneficial.

Personal Attributes

Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and reliable in handling large volumes of project data.
Strong stakeholder management skills across different management levels and ability to drive alignment without direct authority.
Confident communicator who can challenge schedule inputs constructively.
Able to work in a fast-paced project environment with multiple priorities and under pressure.
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally when required and able to stay abroad for particular period as per project and company demands.

Your benefits

We value diversity

The company is committed to strengthening diversity and inclusion at the workplace. It strives to create an inclusive work environment where employees can develop to achieve their full potential and a culture that welcomes differences and creates a sense of belonging.

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